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battue
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n 1: a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the
direction of the hunter
2: indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the
leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the
bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is
no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue
was ordered" [syn: bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed,
battue]
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cockatoo
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n 1: white or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian
region; often kept as cage birds
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hereto
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adv 1: to this writing or document; "the charts hereto attached"
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hitherto
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adv 1: used in negative statement to describe a situation that
has existed up to this point or up to the present time;
"So far he hasn't called"; "the sun isn't up yet" [syn:
so far, thus far, up to now, hitherto,
heretofore, as yet, yet, til now, until now]
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statue
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n 1: a sculpture representing a human or animal
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tattoo
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n 1: a drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to
return to their quarters
2: a design on the skin made by tattooing
3: the practice of making a design on the skin by pricking and
staining
v 1: stain (skin) with indelible color
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thereto
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adv 1: to that; "with all the appurtenances fitting thereto"
[syn: thereto, to it, to that]
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virtue
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n 1: the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is
wrong [syn: virtue, virtuousness, moral excellence]
2: any admirable quality or attribute; "work of great merit"
[syn: merit, virtue] [ant: demerit, fault]
3: morality with respect to sexual relations [syn: virtue,
chastity, sexual morality]
4: a particular moral excellence
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timbuktu
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n 1: a city in central Mali near the Niger river; formerly
famous for its gold trade
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k
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adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units
[syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, m, k]
n 1: the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under
the Systeme International d'Unites [syn: kelvin, K]
2: a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali
metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently
with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring
in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite [syn:
potassium, K, atomic number 19]
3: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn:
thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G,
grand, thou, yard]
4: a unit of information equal to 1000 bytes [syn: kilobyte,
K, KB, kB]
5: a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes [syn: kilobyte,
kibibyte, K, KB, kB, KiB]
6: the 11th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: K, k]
7: street names for ketamine [syn: K, jet, super acid,
special K, honey oil, green, cat valium, super C]
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vertu
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n 1: love of or taste for fine objects of art [syn: virtu,
vertu, connoisseurship]
2: artistic quality [syn: virtu, vertu]
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virtu
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n 1: love of or taste for fine objects of art [syn: virtu,
vertu, connoisseurship]
2: artistic quality [syn: virtu, vertu]
3: objet d'art collectively (especially fine antiques)
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bantu
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adj 1: of or relating to the African people who speak one of the
Bantoid languages or to their culture; "the Bantu
population of Sierra Leone"
n 1: a member of any of a large number of linguistically related
peoples of Central and South Africa
2: a family of languages widely spoken in the southern half of
the African continent [syn: Bantu, Bantoid language]
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hereunto
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into
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thitherto
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whereto
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gentoo
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